Thursday, October 23, 2014

"Asian Americans are
well-represented among the tech ranks, making up 34%
of Google's staff, 41% of Facebook's, and 57% at Yahoo. But researchers at the American Institute for Economic Research found that Asian
tech workers on average made $8,146 less each
year than white workers
in 2012,$3,656 less than Black employees, and $6,907 less than those
who identified as "other." Women, as a group on average,
earn $6,358
less than men each year."

"Many believe that part of the reason for the gap is that Asians are
more likely to be foreign workers living in the United States on an H-1B
visa. The
study authors note that two out of ten employees in jobs "with a
high H-1B demand is Asian" compared to eight percent of the
general population." (Emphasis added)

Curious? You should be! Want
to read 80-20's recommendations to the Asian tech workers?

(1) Get yourselves organized as an
"interest group" in respective companies. Be sure to get as many
people to join as possible. This is where the hard work is. The rest will be easy.
If you get close to 80% participation rate, your company will likely accommodate
all your reasonable requests.

(2) Create a leadership group to coordinate
communication between the interest groups of Yahoo, Facebook and
Google. The larger your group is, the more secure and the stronger you
will be,

(3) Resolve, as a group, to write to
the top management of respective companies,while coping in your company's Board of
Directors. You may want to request the same set of wage/salary data already
released to American Institute for Economic Research, but broken down to
H-1B workers and non H1-B workers.

(4) Use the data to find out if Asian
tech workers, excluding H1-B workers,are still making less than other
co-workers.

(5) You may at the same time request
information regarding Asian managers to find out if you have about the same % of managers
in respective companies.

Be organized and win equal opportunity.
If 80-20 can be of service, let us know.

80-20 President, S. B. Woo, was the
Founding President of the Faculty Bargaining Unit at the University of Delaware, its Chief Spokesman
and Chief Negotiator. Later he was a member of the Board of
Trustees of the same university, while still teaching. Even
later, he was elected Lieutenant Governor of Delaware. He
knows something about organizing, management and government.

A fun video urging you to vote: view http://youtu.be/1g30sHkc128 ,
"Rock the Vote." It was recommend by Fiona
Ma who was the Speaker Pro Tempore of CA's Assembly and is currently running for Board of
Equalization, District 2.

Sunday, October 19, 2014

Q:
What's political common sense that some AsAms should have which may benefit our community?

A: Officials who face re-election
every 4 or 6 years, e.g. US Senators or state senators, are to represent nationwide/statewide/region-wide interests.

Officials who face re-election every 2 years,
e.g. Congress-persons and California's Assembly-persons, are supposed
to represent LOCAL interests. So if an Assembly-person
has a lot of AsAm voters in his/her district, he/she is suppose to speak up for
their interests, regardless of

opposing statewide or national views.
There are too few persons speak up for Asian Ams to begin
with. If even our own elected officials don't speak up for us, then we are truly in bad
shape.

California's Asian Am voters need to
know this time-honored American political tradition to hold
their Assembly-persons and Congress-persons accountable!

A: With your vote!
If the elected official has GROSSLY ignored your interest, then vote against him/her
the next time he/she runs. Don't worship your elected AsAm officials. They are your
public servants. They are supposed to serve your rightful interests. That
is why we have officials who must face re-election every 2 years. This
is the American way!

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Wednesday, October 8, 2014

A Univ. of
Calf., Riverside professor of public policy and political science,
KARTHICK RAMAKRISHNAN, did a poll asking a question about
affirmative action (AA):

"Do you
favor or oppose affirmative action programs designed to help blacks, women and other minorities get better jobs and
education?"

He found 69%
AsAms supporting AA. Even among Chinese Ams. 60% are in
support.

This professor
THEREBY concluded that "These findings point to the
likelihood that the opposition to SCA-5 was probably the result
of selective mobilization among those Asian
American voters opposed to the measure, rather than a sign of drastically
shifting opinion among Asian American voters against affirmative
action"

The above
interpretation of the poll was actually published as an op-ed page article at
LA Times.

I
was amazed &
amused. Does such a jump in logic pass as
scholarly research now? The
following is my answer to the conclusions of this professor:

"Amazing. This professor doesn't seem to know the
difference between AA and "race conscious" college
admissions. The Stop-SCA 5 was focused on
"race-conscious" admissions only. It was NOT about AA in
general.

Affirmative
action is broad,
it includes (1) employment, (2) government contracts and (3)
college/school admissions. AA is, as the poll has phrased it,
"designed to HELP blacks,
women and other minorities get better jobs and
education?" However, "race-conscious" college
admissions is only one of the 3 components of AA. In addition,
it turns out to HURT Asian Americans,
blacks and Hispanics. Asian-Am students had to give white
college applicants 140 points on the SAT in order to gain equal
access to first-tier colleges. Black and Hispanics students
were HURT by the "academic mis-match" phenomenon -
needing to switch out of STEM & law majors.

In other
words, the "race-conscious" college admissions policy
is ANTI-affirmative. That was why stop-SCA-5 succeeded.

The poll was
done correctly. The professor just doesn't know how to interpret
it. There is a lesson here. One needs to know the differences
between apples and oranges."

Pass this
e-newsletter to students at UC, Riverside so that they may know whose
courses NOT to take, for his demonstrated lack of
clear-thinking. :-)

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from its first anniversary. It has only raised $354,000/yr for
5 years or is 25% behind the schedule.

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